And live a life of love, following the example of the Christ, who loved you and gave himself for you as 'an offering and a sacrifice to God, that should be fragrant and acceptable.'

Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for her,

That is how husbands ought to love their wives--as if they were their own bodies. A man who loves his wife is really loving himself;

However, for you individually, let each love his wife as if she were himself; and the wife be careful to respect her husband.

May God, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ give our Brothers peace, and love linked with faith.

May God's blessing be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

And what I pray for is this--that your love may grow yet stronger and stronger, with increasing knowledge and all discernment,

The latter do it from love for me, knowing that I have been appointed to plead the cause of the Good News.

If, then, any encouragement comes through union with Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any communion with the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,

I entreat you to make my happiness complete--Live together animated by the same spirit and in mutual love, one in heart, animated by one Spirit.

Now that we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all his People,

And who told us of the love with which the Spirit has inspired you.

For God has rescued us from the tyranny of Darkness, and has removed us into the Kingdom of his Son, who is the embodiment of his love,

In the hope that they, being bound to one another by love, and keeping in view the full blessedness of a firm conviction, may be encouraged to strive for a perfect knowledge of God's hidden Truth,

Over all these virtues put on love; for that is the girdle which makes all complete.

Husbands, love your wives, and never treat them harshly.

Recalling continually before our God and Father the efforts that have resulted from your faith, the toil prompted by your love, and the patient endurance sustained by your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

But, when Timothy recently returned to us from you with good news of your faith and love, and told us how kindly you think of us--always longing, he said, to see us, just as we are longing to see you--

And for you, may the Lord fill you to overflowing with love for one another and for every one, just as we are filled with love for you;

As to love for the Brethren there is no need to write to you; for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another;

But let us, who belong to the Day, control ourselves, and put on faith and love as a breast plate, and the hope of Salvation as a helmet.

Brothers, it is our duty always to thank God about you, as is but right, considering the wonderful growth of your faith, and because, without exception, your love for one another is continually increasing.

May the Lord bring you to the love of God, and to the patience of the Christ.

The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

and the loving-kindness of our Lord was boundless, and filled me with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.

But women will find their salvation in motherhood, if they never abandon faith, love, or holiness, and behave with modesty.

Do not let any one look down on you because you are young, but, by your conversation, your conduct, your love, your faith, and your purity, be an example to those who hold the Faith.

Love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the Faith, and have been pierced to the heart by many a regret.

But do you, Servant of God, avoid all this. Aim at righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

For the Spirit which God gave us was not a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power, love, and self-control.

It was God who saved us, and from him we received our solemn Call--not as a reward for anything that we had done, but in fulfillment of his own loving purpose. For that love was extended to us, through Christ Jesus, before time began,

Keep before you, as an example of sound teaching, all that you learnt from me as you listened with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.

Flee from the passions of youth, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in the company of those who, with a pure heart, invoke the Lord.

treacherous, reckless, and puffed up with pride; they will love pleasure more than they love God;

But you, Timothy, were a close observer of my teaching, my conduct, my purposes, my faith, my forbearance, my love, and my patient endurance,

for Demas, in his love for the world, has deserted me. He has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Teach that the older men should be temperate, serious, and discreet; strong in faith, love, and endurance.

that they should teach what is right, so as to train the younger women to love their husbands and children,

But, when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for man were revealed, he saved us,

Because I hear of the love and the faith which you show, not only to the Lord Jesus, but also to all his People;

I have indeed found great joy and encouragement in your love, knowing, as I do, how the hearts of Christ's People have been cheered, brother, by you.

Yet the claims of love make me prefer to plead with you--yes, even me, Paul, though I am an ambassador for Christ Jesus and, now a prisoner for him as well.

Therefore, let us draw near boldly to the Throne of Love, to find pity and love for the hour of need.

For God is not unjust; he will not forget the work that you did, and the love that you showed for his Name, in sending help to your fellow Christians--as you are still doing.

Let us vie with one another in a rivalry of love and noble actions.

How much worse then, think you, will be the punishment deserved by those who have trampled underfoot the Son of God, who have treated the blood that rendered the Covenant valid--the very blood by which they were purified--as of no account, and who have outraged the Spirit of Love?

Let your love for the Brethren continue. :24 Give our greeting to all your Leaders, and to all Christ's People. Our friends from Italy send their greetings to you.

Do not let your conduct be ruled by the love of money. Be content with what you have, for God himself has said-- 'I will never forsake you, nor will I ever abandon you.'

Blessed is the man who remains firm under temptation, for, when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of Life, which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

Listen, my dear Brothers. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the things of this world to be rich through their faith, and to possess the Kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

Yet, if you keep the royal law which runs--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself,' you are doing right;

Though you have never seen him, yet you love him; though you do not even now see him, yet you believe in him, and exalt with a triumphant happiness too great for words,

Now that, by your obedience to the Truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine brotherly affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts;

Show honour to every one, Love the Brotherhood, 'revere God, honour the emperor.'

Lastly, you should all be united, sympathetic, full of brotherly love, kind-hearted, humble-minded;

Above all things, let your love for one another be earnest, for 'Love throws a veil over countless sins.'

I urge you to be true shepherds of the flock of God among you, not because you are compelled, but of your own free will; not from a base love of gain, but with a ready spirit;

I have been writing to you briefly by the hand of Silas, our true-hearted Brother (for so I regard him), to urge upon you, and to bear my testimony, that in what I have written is to be found the true love of God. On that take your stand.

Greet one another with the kiss of love. May God give his peace to you all in your union with Christ.

piety by brotherly affection, and brotherly affection by love.

and advance in the love and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All glory be to him now and for ever.

but, whenever a man lays his Message to heart, in that man the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. By this we know that we are in union with God--

Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;

Think what love the Father has shown us in allowing us to be called 'Children of God'; as indeed we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it has not learned to know him.

By this the Children of God are distinguished from the Children of the Devil--No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the man who does not love his Brother.

For these are the Tidings that we heard from the first--that we are to love one another.

We know that we have passed out of Death into Life, because we love our Brothers. The man who does not love remains in a state of Death.

We have learned to know what love is from this--that Christ laid down his life on our behalf. Therefore we also ought to lay down our lives on behalf of our Brothers.

But, if any one has worldly possessions, and yet looks on while his Brother is in want, and steels his heart against him, how can it be said that the love of God is within him?

My children, do not let our love be mere words, or end in talk; let it be true and show itself in acts.

His Command is this--that we should put our trust in the Name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, in accordance with the Command that he gave us.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.

He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love.

The love of God was revealed to us by his sending his only Son into the world, that we might find Life through him.

His love is seen in this--not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Dear friends, since God loved us thus, we, surely, ought to love one another.

No human eyes have ever seen God, yet, if we love one another, God remains in union with us, and his love attains its perfection in us.

And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

It is through this that love has attained its perfection in us, so that we may have confidence on the Day of Judgment, because what Christ is that we also are in this world.

There is no fear in love. No! Love, when perfect, drives out fear, for fear implies punishment, and the man who feels fear has not attained to perfect love.

We love, because God first loved us.

If a man says 'I love God,' and yet hates his Brother, he is a liar; for the man who does not love his Brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

Indeed, we have this Command from God-- 'He who loves God must also love his Brother.'

By this we know that we love God's Children--when we love God and carry out his commands.

For to love God is to lay his commands to heart; and his commands are not burdensome,

To an eminent Christian Lady, and to her Children, from the Officer of the Church. I sincerely love you all, and not I only, but also all those who have learned to know the Truth.

We love you for the sake of that Truth which is always in our hearts; yes, and it will be ours for ever.

Blessing, mercy, and peace will be ours--the gift of God, the Father, and of Jesus Christ, the Father's Son--in a life of truth and love.

And now, I pray you, Lady--not as though I were writing a new command for you; no, it is the command which we had from the first--Let us love one another.

And this is love--to live in obedience to the Father's commands. This is the Command as you learned from the first, to live in a spirit of love.

They themselves have testified before the Church to your love; and you will do well to help them on their way in a manner worthy of the service of God.

May mercy, peace, and love be yours in ever-increasing measure.

Alas for them! They walk in the steps of Cain; led astray by Balaam's love of gain, they plunge into sin, and meet their ruin through rebellion like that of Korah.

These are the men who are blots upon your 'Love-feasts,' when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up by the roots;

and keep within the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to Immortal Life.

But this I have against you--You have abandoned your first love.

I know your life, your love, faith, service, and endurance; and I know that your life of late has been better than it was at first.

'All whom I love I rebuke and discipline.' Therefore be in earnest and repent.

Their victory was due to the Blood of the Lamb, and to the Message to which they bore their testimony. In their love of life they shrank not from death.

Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'